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ABOUT
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Profile |
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Wellgenex has a team of talents with
diverse technical and industry knowledge and expertise from
R&D, product development, regulatory affairs, production,
to marketing and operation in the biopharmaceutical, medical,
nutrition and natural health product industries in North America
and Asia Pacific.
Wellgenex identifies and develops product
reach and market entry strategy and execution in target marketplaces
and segments. Recognizing each client has different needs,
the company always strives to maximize value for its clients
through customized approaches and tailor-made solutions to
capitalize on product potentials and maximize market opportunities.
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Focus |
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Wellgenex is sharply focused on science
and technology developments, regulatory updates and market
opportunities in the nutrition and health industry in North
America and Asia Pacific. The company generally serves clients
in the biopharmaceutical, medical, nutrition, functional foods
and natural health product businesses with keen interest and
commitment to bringing science-based products to expand in
the existing markets or to enter into new target marketplaces.
Wellgenex collaborates with respected research
organizations, academic institutes, government agencies and
industry partners. The company partners with specialists for
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Professionals and Associates |
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Michael Z.C. Li,
M.D., M.Sc., MBA has over fifteen years of experience
in the medical, nutrition, and natural health product industries
in Asia Pacific and North America with expertise in R&D,
clinical trials, technology assessment, product development
and commercialization, business and market development and
strategic planning. He has worked as a general physician,
and held technical and business executive positions in a number
of private and public as well as multinational companies such
as H.J. Heinz and Zuellig.
Listed at International WHO'S WHO of Professionals,
Li earned his medical degree with honours from the Jinan University
Medical School. He also holds a M.Sc. in Human Nutrition from
the University of British Columbia and an MBA from Sauder
School of Business.
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Yili Bai,
Ph.D. has more than twenty years of experience in
the field of natural health products research and new product
/ process development. Her diversified working experience
from university, research institutes, government research
laboratories and the pharmaceutical industry of Canada, U.S.
as well as China have provided her well-rounded scientific
knowledge and industry-related skills.
Dr. Bai received her Ph.D. in Natural Products Chemistry from
the University of Calgary and then did post-doctoral research
at the University of Georgia and Agriculture Canada Research
Station. She is the author of over twenty scientific articles
and the inventor of a natural product process patent.
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Dennis V.C. Awang,
Ph.D., F.C.I.C. was head of Natural Products in Bureau
of Drug Research in Health Canada where he directed research
in support of the regulatory bureau of the Drugs Directorate
till retiring. He was for many years the official spokesperson
in natural medicine for the Canadian government.
The author of over one hundred research and scientific publications,
Dr. Awang has been author and member of numerous editorial
advisory boards of peer- reviewed scientific journals and
newsletters, as well as regular lecturer and media commentator
on medicinal plant/natural products science. He is a member
of the American Botanical Council¡¯s Advisory Board, and has
served on the USP Advisory Panel on Identification and Standardization
of Natural Products and the faculty of Columbia University¡¯s
annual course on Herbal Medicine for physicians and surgeons.
Dr. Awang has also served on the External Advisory Committee
of the University of Illinois at Chicago/U.S. National Institutes
of Health (NIH) Botanical Dietary Supplements Research Center
(BDSRC), and as Chair of the Advisory Board of the NIH BDSRC
of Purdue University ¨C University of Alabama. Dr. Awang was
recently appointed Co-editor for North America of the journal
Phytomedicine.
Dr. Awang was granted the Martin de la Cruz award
by the Mexican Academy of Traditional Medicine for distinguished
contribution to medicinal plant research in 1994. He received
his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from Queen¡¯s University, and did postdoctoral
studies in organic chemistry at the Universities of Michigan
and Illinois.
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David Kitts,
Ph.D. is a professor and Director of the Food, Nutrition
and Health (FNH) Program at the University of British Columbia
(UBC). Dr. Kitts teaches undergraduate and graduate courses
in Food Chemistry, Functional Foods, Advances in Food Chemistry
and Food Toxicology. His areas of research also specialize
in the disciplines of Food Chemistry, Toxicology and Nutrition.
He is a former president of BC Food Technologists and one
of the founding directors of BC Functional Food and Nutraceuticals.
Dr. Kitts has served on many national committees that have
worked to develop standards for nutritional labeling and nutritional
claims. His research is focused on the production, or development,
of food products that are safe and nutritious. Research activities
in the past and present include the identification of potential
toxicants in foods and evolution of processes for removal
or inactivation from the food supply. In addition, active
current research interests include characterization of antioxidant
structure-functional activity of several bioactive plant and
animal products and evaluation of potential physiological
responses of bioactive components in foods. The determination
of both chemical and biochemical activities of antioxidant
end-point measures has been used as a parameter for assessing
structure-activity relationships of different bioactive components
for evaluating standards of evidence for affinity and safety.
Prof. Kitts obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from UBC,
and completed his postdoctoral studies at University of California,
Davis.
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Xinsheng Yao,
Ph.D. is an academician of the Chinese Academy of
Engineering. He is a professor at Shenyang Pharmaceutical
University, Tsinghua University and Jinan University. He is
also an honorary and visiting professor in 19 universities
in China, Taiwan and Japan. Prof. Yao currently co-chairs
the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, and acts as an evaluation
member for the Chinese government¡¯s Natural Science Foundation.
Prof. Yao has been a dedicated teacher and researcher of the
medicinal chemistry of natural health products for more than
50 years. As the inventor of 36 patents and chief editor of
The Chemistry of Natural Products, Structure Elucidation of
Organic Compounds, and The Elucidation of FT-NMR Spectra,
Prof. Yao has published over 250 scientific papers. In addition,
he has been a contributing editor and associate chief editor
for a number of scientific journals, including Journal of
Asian Natural Products, Medicinal Chemistry, Medicine World,
Journal of Chinese Prescription Drugs, and Journal of Chinese
Traditional Medicine.
Prof. Yao served as president of Shenyang Pharmaceutical University
from 1996 to 2002. Presently he serves as honorary president
of the School of Pharmacy and director of the Institute of
Natural Product and Natural Products Chemistry at Jinan University.
He also serves as director of Shenzhen Research Centre of
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products. Prof. Yao
is a committee member in 9 national key laboratories in China
for new drug research, natural medicines, biomedical and pharmaceutical
sciences.
So far a total of 15 national and international awards have
been granted to Prof. Yao for his scientific contributions.
Prof. Yao received his B.Sc. in pharmaceutical sciences from
the Northeast Pharmaceutical University and his Ph.D. in pharmacognosy
and natural product chemistry from the University of Tokyo.
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